The lab turns a water unit into a scenario profile with source, legal class, storage status, recovery method, delivery path, reliability, energy intensity, transaction complexity, and irrigation usability.
CAP / Colorado River. Recovery well plus distribution infrastructure.
Recoverability and transfer fit require review by qualified parties.
Groundwater. On-site well, pump, filtration, field distribution.
Depth-to-water, yield, and water quality must be verified.
Reclaimed water. Treatment facility, storage, dedicated delivery path.
End use, treatment class, and delivery pathway are modeled assumptions.
District delivery plus on-farm storage. Batch delivery to storage, continuous low-flow field release.
Designed to compare peak hydraulic demand, not to determine legal supply.
This is a planning index, not a legal finding. It weights physical deliverability, legal clarity, reliability, energy burden, storage flexibility, irrigation compatibility, and public data confidence.